Recent Highlights of CEELT
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01/2015– 07/2017 Curriculum survey on primary education 2015 (Commissioned by the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Co-Investigators: Prof. Alan Cheung, Prof. Derek Cheung, Prof. Clarence Ng, Dr. Pun-hon Ng Introduction CEELT was commissioned by the Education Bureau (EDB) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the Government) to conduct a survey in the 2014/15 school year to continue to monitor the progress on whole-school curriculum planning, learning and teaching, student learning, how the changes are managed by schools, as well as to examine the issue of students' knowledge base in light of the interface with new developments in the primary curriculum. Click here for more information “In-service Programme for Guangdong English Teachers” in the 2014/15 School Year
CEELT has been commissioned by the Hong Kong Education Bureau to organise the annual In-service Programme for Guangdong English Teachers for 5 consecutive years since 2011. The programme in 2014/15 was held at CUHK from 5 to 25 July 2015, which consisted of professional development workshops, visits to local schools, on-site lesson observations and cultural tours. The programme was concluded with a celebration ceremony held on 25 July 2015. Project period
02/2012 – 05/2013 Consolidation and redevelopment work on Quality Education Fund English Language (Primary) Projects Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Introduction The Quality Education Fund (QEF) was established in January 1998 to grant funding for projects initiated by the education sector for the promotion of quality education in Hong Kong. There are a considerable number of QEF projects on English Language (Primary) (ELP) covering areas such as “English reading scheme”, “Phonics” and “English e-learning and learning platform” which have generated various deliverables such as teaching packages, DVDs, CD-ROMs, handbooks and guidelines. These deliverables contain exemplars of good teaching and learning practices worthy of dissemination. CEELT was commissioned by the QEF to identify success factors from these quality ELP projects for wider and more effective dissemination. Click here for more information
In-service Programme for Guangdong English Teachers (Commissioned by the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Prof. Barry Bai, Mr. Eddy Chan, Dr. Philip Chan, Mr. Howard Chau, Prof. David Coniam, Mr. Bear Hong, Ms. Connie Lau, Dr. Winnie Lee, Ms. Betty Liu, Ms. Shirley Liu, Prof. Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Mr. Phil Smyth, Mr. Patrick Tseng, Ms. Fay Wong, Ms. Jessica Wong, CEELT staff Introduction CEELT has been commissioned by the Hong Kong Education Bureau to organise the annual In-service Programme for Guangdong English Teachers for 5 consecutive years since 2011. In the 3-week programme, 40 Guangdong primary or secondary English teachers participate in various professional development activities for enhancing their English teaching Click here for more information Project period
09/2011 – 08/2013 Refined English Enhancement Scheme (REES) project (Commissioned by individual schools) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Ms. Connie Lau, Prof. Pun-hon Ng, Mr. Jacky Li, Ms. Betty Liu, Prof. Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Mr. Stuart Mead, Mr. Kin-wah Tsang, Ms. Fay Wong Introduction The fined-tuned medium of instruction (MOI) arrangements for secondary schools was implemented from 2010/11. To tie in with this development, the Education Bureau (EDB) offered the REES to schools in 2010. Either those EES schools or non-EES schools could apply for the REES to further enhance their English language education in the context of the diversified MOI arrangements. CEELT was then commissioned by 2 secondary schools to provide professional consultancy on their school-based REES projects (both for a period of 2 years). In addition, CEELT was also engaged in some other schools’ REES projects but in a smaller scale. Click here for more information Project period
02/2011 – 04/2012 Developing young short story writers in secondary schools in Hong Kong-A university-school partnership programme Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Dr. Betty J. Gran, Ms. Mary Thorp Introduction The project was supported by the University Grant Committee through the CUHK Knowledge Transfer Project Fund in 2011 Click here for more information Project period
02/2011 – 06/2012 Curriculum survey on primary education 2011 (Commissioned by the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Co-Investigators: Prof. Derek Cheung, Prof. David Coniam, Prof. Man-koon Ho, Prof. Pun-hon Ng, Prof. Ngai-ying Wong Introduction The Curriculum Development Council (CDC) laid out a ten-year plan for curriculum development in basic education in Hong Kong in the report entitled Learning to Learn: The Way Forward in Curriculum Development (2001), with 2001/02 to 2005/06 as the short-term phase, and 2006/07 to 2010/11 as the medium-term phase. A ten-year review of the curriculum reform in basic education was pledged in the report. Under this context, data from different sources on different aspects of the curriculum reform from 2001/02 to 2011/12 contributed to the holistic review. The Survey, which was commissioned to CEELT by the Education Bureau, formed part of the data contributing to this large-scale review. Click here for more information |
Quality Education Fund Thematic Network (QTN) on English Language (Primary) 2015/16
The QTN 2015/16 started in September 2015, and the focuses of this implementation year are e-Learning, Phonics and Reading. There are a total of 38 schools engaged in the project. The first Executive Committee Meeting was held on 26 November 2015. In the meeting, the CUHK QTN project team reported the project progress and the representatives of the core schools shared their views on the project. The second Executive Committee Meeting will be held in April 2016. Project period
12/2012 – 12/2013 Senior Secondary curriculum implementation survey 2012/13 (Commissioned by the Education Bureau, HKSAR Government) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Co-Investigators: Prof. Alan Cheung, Prof. Derek Cheung, Prof. Man-koon Ho, Dr. Pun-hon Ng, Prof. Jocelyn Wong, Prof. Ngai-ying Wong Introduction The Education Bureau (EDB) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region had commissioned a series of curriculum implementation studies since the 2009/10 school year to track the implementation progress of the Senior Secondary (SS) curriculum and assessment, and to identify issues of concerns in order to improve the relevant support for schools and students. The New Senior Secondary Curriculum Implementation Studies 2009/10 and 2011/12 were two of such studies. The Senior Secondary Curriculum Implementation Survey 2012/13 was the third one to continue to track the progress with special reference to the impact of the first SS curriculum and assessment cycle on whole-school curriculum planning, learning and teaching, student learning, and to identify issues of concern for improving support to schools. Click here for more information Project period
QTN 2013/14 (Reading): 01/2014 –08/2014 QTN 2014/15 (Phonics): 09/2014 –08/2015 QTN 2015/16 (E-Learning): 09/2015–08/2016 Quality Education Fund Thematic Network (QTN) on English Language (Primary) Projects (Commissioned by the Quality Education Fund (QEF), HKSAR Government) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Prof. Barry Bai, Mr. Howard Chau, Ms. Carol Choi, Dr. Betty J. Gran, Prof. Sai-wing Pun, CEELT staff Introduction As one of the deliverables of the Consolidation and Redevelopment Work on Quality Education Fund English Language (Primary) Projects (hereafter referred to as C&R Work), a resource package was developed by CEELT by incorporating and extending the successful pedagogic experiences of 57 QEF projects on English Language (Primary). Six modules—Phonics, Reading, E-Learning, Drama, Intervention Programmes and Enrichment Programmes—have been developed for the resource package, with detailed lesson plans, teaching suggestions and supporting materials. Aiming to further disseminate the good practices of the QEF projects, a QEF Thematic Network (QTN) has been established to facilitate selected primary schools to try out selected module(s) from the C&R Work resource package, as well as to expand the module(s) by developing their own school-based English curriculum for enhancing English learning and teaching. The QTN also provides a platform for the selected schools to share among themselves valuable pedagogic experiences, as well as useful learning and teaching materials. With the professional support from CEELT, these good practices will then be consolidated and disseminated to primary schools in Hong Kong. Click here for more information Project period
09/2007 – 08/2013 English Enhancement Scheme (EES) project (Commissioned by individual schools) Project Leader: Prof. Barley Mak Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Dr. Philip Chan, Dr. Betty J. Gran, Dr. Winnie Lee, Ms. Betty Liu, Mr. Brian MacLean, Prof. Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Mr. Stuart Mead, Dr. Paul Sze Introduction In 2006, the Education Bureau introduced the English Enhancement Scheme (EES) for CMI schools (using Chinese as the medium of instruction) to further enhance the learning and teaching of English through strategic planning and implementation of holistic school-based plans for capacity building. The objective was to ensure that students in CMI schools would also be proficient in English while learning non-language subjects through the mother tongue. CEELT was then commissioned by 4 secondary schools to provide professional consultancy on their school-based EES projects (3 schools for a period of 6 years while one for 3 years). In addition, CEELT was also engaged in some other schools’ EES projects but in a smaller scale. Click here for more information Project period
09/2013– present ABRACADABRA (ABRA) web-based literacy program on Hong Kong primary school students (Initiated by CEELT) Project Leaders: Prof. Barley Mak, Prof. Alan Cheung CSLP representatives: Dr. Philip Abrami, Ms. Anne Wade Facilitators: Prof. Barley Mak, Prof. Alan Cheung, CEELT staff Introduction ABRACADABRA (ABRA) is a free, interactive web-based literacy programme designed for early elementary school-aged students, their educators, teachers and parents. It was developed by The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in an effort to help battle the alarmingly high percentage of low ability readers in countries throughout the world. In 2013, with an aim to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of ABRA within Hong Kong primary classrooms, CEELT, in partnership with the CSLP, initiated a pilot study of the ABRACADABRA (ABRA) web-based literacy program on Hong Kong primary school students at T.W.G.Hs. Tang Shiu Kin Primary School. The ABRA project is led by Prof. Barley Mak, Director of CEELT, Prof. Alan Cheung of the Faculty of Education at CUHK and Dr. Phil Abrami, Director of the CSLP. The third implementation year of ABRA has started from September 2015. Click here for more information |
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